An orphaned baby orangutan has been rescued after spending 6 months in a 'tiny cage' and 'unthinkable' conditions in ...

Heartbreaking footage shows a baby orangutan trapped in a tiny cage in a smuggling ring that was smashed by police this week. The primate was torn from its home in Indonesia before being dragged ...

Ex-captive orangutans, as the name suggests, lived at one time as human captives. Some suffered abominable conditions in captivity -- tiny cages, starvation, and abuse -- but others lived as ...

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They might live in the trees, swinging from branch to branch, but orangutans are still some of the most human-like creatures you can find in the wild. We share over 96% of the same DNA.

Orangutans are bought online for as little as $109. When they outgrow their homes, they can be confined to cages. Image taken by Alejo Sabugo I’m a scientist and I’d like to think a good one ...

Vandu and Raba are two Bornean Orangutans that have spent most of their ... “It is no credit to Hong Kong to have animals in cages like that,” said animal behaviourist, Cynthia Smillie.

Orangutans that live in Sumatra usually make their nests in palm forests. But one day in 2014, Panut Hadisiswoyo caught sight of an orangutan riding around the streets of Medan, the island’s ...